Joab Jackson, Writing

Book Reviews and Author Profiles

All reviews were published in the Baltimore City Paper, unless otherwise noted.

Author Profiles:

Is God a Mathematician?" Mario Livio , The Urbanite (1/2 page down), 2009-03.
Remade in America: Susan Muaddi Darraj Explores Adult Lives Of Immigrants' Children, 2007-08-22.
Chris Cross Cultural: Writer Kim Jensen Fuses the Personal With the Political , 2006-03-29.
You Must Go Home Again: James Whorton, 2005-01-26.
Signals in the Noise: Peter Wayner Stalks the Surreptitious Art of Steganography, 2002-06-02.

Full-length reviews:

Spy Lame: A Book About What Your Stuff Says About You Doesn't Reveal Enough, 2008-08-27.
Made to Disorder: Steve Levy's New Book Reveals The Upside And Downside Of Your iPod's Shuffle Mode, 2006-11-22.
Star Search: Two New Books Examine The New Informational Overlords, Google, 2005-11-16.
Cash Woes: A New Spate of Books Show How the Love of the Green Infects Our Lives, 2005-09-14.
Made to Order: The Dumbing Down of the Robot Mind, 2002-04-17.
Lush Life: Remembering Charles Bukowski, 1994-07-20.

Capsule reviews:

The Imposter, 2009-03-25.
More Information Than You Require, 2008-11-10.
Matala, 2008-06-04.
Copernicus' Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began, 2008-04-30.
The Best of LCD: The Art and Writing of WFMU-FM 91.1 FM, 2008-04-30.
The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (On a Shag Rug) in the Seventies, 2007-12-19.
Later, at the Bar, 2006-06-27.
Buffalo Bill’s America: William Cody and the Wild West Show, 2006-02-08.
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists, 2005-12-14.
Wild Ducks Flying Backwards, 2005-08-31.
The Emperor of Gondwanaland, 2005-03-05.
Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America’s First Lady of Food, 2005-05-18.
The Good Wife, 2005-04-05.
No Place to Hide, 2005-03-09.
Harold's End, 2005-03-02.
Villages, 2004-12-01.
Human Capital, 2004-10-27.
My Old Man, 2004-10-06.
Sweet and Vicious, 2004-09-08.
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, 2004-06-23.
The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor, 2004-05-12.
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality, 2004-04-28.
Toward the Livable City, 2004-02-11.
Stories From Another World, 2004-01-14.
Songbook, 2003-11-05.
Sex, Time and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution, 2003-09-24.
Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster, 2003-08-06.
Alison's Automotive Repair Manual, 2003-07-03.
21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com, 2002-08-21.
The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century, 2002-07-31.
How the Universe Got its Spots, 2002-05-29.
Science Fictions: A Scientific Mystery, a Massive CoverUp, and the Dark Legacy of Robert Gallo, 2002-03-13.
The Future of Life, 2002-01-23.
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001, 2001-11-14.
Northern Lights: The True Story of the Man Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aurora Borealis, 2001-07-01.
The Impact of the Gene, 2001-08-15.
The Code Book, The Advent of the Algorithm, 2000-11-08.
A Treasury of American Folklore, 1999-10-13.